Belinda Lopez schrieb: ... > Does the standard installation process where one selects 'Use entire disk' > do a good enough job of wiping the hard drive of any prior data? > > Given that most of these systems will be used in schools or by kids, these organisations want to avoid any possibility that any old data might be left on the systems.
Unless you actually overwrite the entire disk, clever people can recover some of the files with a tool like testdisk/photorec. I did this with a new formatted hard disk from a jumble sale and was amazed at all the stuff still on it, including porn videos! The solution is simple: from the live DVD do something like: "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" (Maybe somebody can verify that this is correct.) This will write zeros onto the entire disk (sda would be the first hard disk, so take care if there are several.) It will take quite some time and there is no progress editor. I'm sure Ubuntu also provides some graphical tool for this. Theo Schmidt -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
